68 No Mirth Control! --, ;.--'n /- ;/:-- -' _/,' , HOW TO LOSE FRIENDS AND ALIENATE PEOPLE By Irving D. Tressler Gets you out of a mental rut. This isn't the rutting season any- ,yay. What are you and Mr. Dale Carnegie doing in it? The season's biggest abdominal (belly) laugh. At all bookstores $1.49 51 ACKPOLE SONS, 250 Park Ave., N. Y. C. made the wrong lnarriage, yet found it necessary to renounce love when It came to her, too late, in the person of a companion of her youth. The atmosphere of a French provincial town is adlnirably created, the style is delicate and charlning, although in a minor key. Winner of the 1933 Prix F élnina. THESE FOOLISH THINGS, by Michael Sadleir. More renunciation, not French this tÏtne but Anglo-Saxon- the love story of an English journalist and the Alnerican WOlnan whom he could not lnarry. Slight but intelli- gent, and capably told. OLD CHESTER DAYS, by Margaret De- land. Some of the Dr. Lavendar sto- ries, which you lnay relnember froln years back, collected in one volume. They are still amiably sentimental, full of a disarlning charity, and very neatly put together. If you are tired of thunder and lightning in your fic- tion, these will be a pleasant change. RusH TO THE SUN, by \Villialn Brown Meloney. Violence among a group of assorted love-hungry people, some of them related, on a New England farm. Proves the old vein of Stark Sex is not yet played out. HE SWUNG AND HE MISSED, by Eu- gene O'Brien. Petty tyranny in the United States Navy-the lnisfor- tunes of an alnbitious and hard- working gob who learned that the "education" promised him when he enlisted was of a different nature than he had hoped for. Mr. O'Brien's sailors talk with convincing tough- ness and his picture of life in the N avv is credible if not pretty. A readable fi rst novel. w .. ... ...... .. , in Home Furnishings Recognized by mer- chandise executi,res and buyers as the outstanding magazine in home furnishing's. Creative Desig'n is published eight times a year for the progTes- sive merchandiser of furniture, fabrics, floor coverings, china, glass ctnd lamps, lin- ens and domestics. Subscription $.3.00 50 EAST 42ND STREET N EW YORK CITY SEPTE11:BER 4 2 1937 GENE.RAL Spy OVERHEAD: rrHE STORY OF IN- DUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE, by Clinch Calkins. j-\ s rious, startling'- and Ïtn- portant study of t e revelations that have recently been spilled into the lap of the La Follette COlnmlttee. 'fHE FILIBUSTER: THE CAREER OF WILLIAM WALKER, by Laurence Greene. A lively account of one of the 1110St curious characters in our history, the fanatical freebooter who led an expedition into Nicaragua and for a brief period in the eighteen- fifties played the rôle of a little Hitler. III ustrated. RETREAT FROM REASON, by Lancelot Hogben. Reprint, published by the Channel Bookshop, of a lecture by the brilliant author of "Mathelnatics for the Million." Contains a carload of interesting ideas for running the world lnore reasonably than it is run at present. FOUR HUNDRED MILLION CUSTOM- ERS, by Cad Crow. Curious, alnus- ing, and on the whole quite frankl) superficial facts and anecdotes about the Chinese, as seen froln the rather special viewpoint of an American who for tw nty-five years has conducted an advertising agency in Shanghai. Drawings by G. Sapojniko:ff. CATHERINE AND POTEMKIN: AN IMPERIAL ROMANCE, by J erOlne Dreifuss. Cheaply written and full of faked dialogue, but it serves up the dirt thoroughly and is based on correspondence recently released by the Soviet government. Illustrated. DAYLIGHT MOON, by Elizabeth Cha- bot F orrest. Two years of life in a tin) EskÎ1no settlelnent near Alaska's northernmost tip. Illustrated. WINFIELD SCOTT: THE SOLDIER AND THE MAN, by Charles \Vinslow El- liott. Impressively detailed biography, stressing the military angle. Illustrat- ed. MASSACHUSETTS: A GUIDE TO ITS PLACES AND PEOPLE. Anoth- er \VP A total-coverage illustrated guide. This is the one that has filled the Bay State dignitaries with cha- gnn. VER.SE ONE MORE MANHATTAN, by Phyllis McGinley. In some seventy poelns, both light and medium-dark, Miss McGinley deals with the problems of her life and our own hard tÎ1nes- departlnent stores, publishers, war, love, and apples. Thirty-six of them first appeared in The 1V ew Yorker. MY STERIES MURDER IN BLUE, by Clifford Wit- ting. The death of a local constable stirs an English village out of its pro- longed coma. Traditional lnaterial, enlivened by more than the usua] amount of skulduggery. '"[HE DOOR IN THE WALL, by Laur- ence W. Meynell. One nasty jolt after another for a young English visitor at a European carnival. Fine for those who like their internationa] intrigue to move at race-track pace. . o PIONEERS DEPARTMENT [From the San Francisco Chronicle] A valuable exhibit of albatross will soon be on their way to Fleishhacker Zoo from Wake Island, in the mid-Pacific. The birds will be flown here by Pan- American Clipper.